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I laughed. :smile:
Seems though like a waste when you already have enough to annihilate the other side of the world..
At least they're a little more environmentally conscious these days
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0LnPcSaRA2w
Even a waste from a military point of view. It was a PR stunt more than a weapon.
Incidentally the Tzar Bomb it the cleanest bomb ever detonated (fallout/megaton). In the full +100MT configuration, with a uranium tamper, it would have been quite another story.
Cheers
Height is most likely a lot more proportional to yield than width/depth, that seems almost a given..I can't imagine the height, width and depth of the mushroom cloud being directly proportional to yield.
Why does it end up as a mushroom cloud though? They seem to start hemispherical...
That’s not the tsar, in fact most footage of Tsar isn't from Tsar at all.
That’s not the tsar, in fact most footage of Tsar isn't from Tsar at all.
I'd assume it's because you clearly see a ground shockwave (huge front of dust spreading out) in that movie..Really ?
I'd assume it's because you clearly see a ground shockwave (huge front of dust spreading out) in that movie..
The movie linked at the start of the thread said the tsar exploded high up in the air.
The effects were spectacular. Despite the very substantial burst height of 4,000 m (13,000 ft) the vast fireball reached down to the Earth, and swelled upward to nearly the height of the release plane. The blast pressure below the burst point was 300 PSI, six times the peak pressure experienced at Hiroshima. The flash of light was so bright that it was visible at a distance of 1,000 kilometers, despite cloudy skies......
Really ?
Yes, but the explosion shown in the video now being discussed clearly starts *on* the ground.From here